Tag Archives: Interest Rate Hike

More commentary has come through focusing on the real estate market along with news that the Fed is no longer predicting a recession in the near future.

The Federal Reserve once again raised the interest rates at its Federal Open Market Committee meeting Wednesday, reaching levels last seen in 2001.

As expected, the Federal Reserve raised rates again at the end of their May meeting by a quarter point—this is now the tenth-straight increase.

HouseCanary reports the number of homes that experienced price cuts increased over 130% year-over-year, as the market has been reported to be adjusting to continuous rate hikes.

This is now the eighth consecutive rate hike, an increase of 4.5% since the hikes began.

Another Federal Open Market Committee Meeting, another rate hike. At the conclusion of the FOMC’s November Meeting, the Committee raised rates by 75 basis points, the fourth consecutive such hike and the sixth of 2022.

For the third time in a row, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised the nominal interest rate by 75-basis points at the conclusion of their scheduled two-day meeting to a rate of 3.00-3.25%. This marks the highest ...

On March 14-15, 2020, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held an emergency meeting in light of the then-blossoming pandemic to cut rates by a 100 basis points to a rate of 0-0.25%.  But now, in light of ...

Three-quarters of a point. This is the amount the Federal Reserve chose to raise the nominal interest rate by citing the need to combat the highest rate of inflation since the 80s.  To put that another way, this is the ...

The Federal Reserve raised the nominal interest rate on Wednesday, for the first time since 2018, citing factors such as surging inflation and the growing military conflict in Ukraine.